When poetry moved underground, by Czeslaw Milosz

When poets discover that their words refer only to other words and not to reality which must be described as … More

Lifesaving Poems: Czeslaw Milosz’s ‘And Yet the Books’

And Yet the Books And yet the books will be there on the shelves, separate beings,That appeared once, still wetAs … More

Gift A day so happy.Fog lifted early. I worked in the garden.Hummingbirds were stopping over the honeysuckle flowers.There was no … More

Psalm How leaky are the borders of man-made states! How many clouds float over them scot-free, how much … More

One year I decided that I would decorate one of my teaching rooms with my collection of Poems on the … More